Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 12-minute talk, the teacher explores the Buddhist understanding of emptiness as the antidote to ignorance, using the example of how we misconceive the self. He distinguishes between the self as it is merely designated by name—the conventionally existent “I” that functions in daily life—and the false, independently existing self that does not exist at all. Through this insight, ignorance perpetuates itself through habitual patterns, and only the wisdom understanding emptiness can cut this cycle. The talk then shifts to the practical method of abandoning self-cherishing: by repeatedly observing the faults and suffering it causes, practitioners naturally turn toward other-centeredness, just as we naturally abandon worldly activities we see produce harm. Pitched at those with some foundation in Buddhist philosophy and thought transformation.
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File: tbi-duplicate-kr-thought-tranf-suns-radiance-suns-radiance-of-thought-transformation-10a-1989-09-05
Teacher: TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989)
Collection: Sun's Radiance (TBI (duplicate – KR Thought Tranformation 1989))
Date: 1989-09-05
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~574